Thursday, 16 September 2010

Every cloud has a quilled lining!

When I first got into making quilled cards on photographic backgrounds, I started with some very simple pictures of things such as clouds, green leaves and rippling water. Since then, my imagination has been running riot, and I've been using flowers as backgrounds for quilled butterflies, landscapes as backgrounds for quilled birds and hot-air balloons ... well, you've seen it all here, of course! But this week I thought I'd go right back to basics and make use of my favourite sky photos again. So I printed a sky panel on to this card ...

Well, you all know what it's like ... while I was thinking about what to quill against the blue sky background, I managed to spill a drop of water on to the card. I tried to blot it up and the ink smudged, creating a nasty blue streak across the white section. Oh no! What shall I do now? But there's nothing like adversity to get the creative juices flowing, is there? So I've covered up the smudge with a rainbow of quilling strips, added a tiny bit of silver filigree at one end and put in the sun, just peeking out of the clouds, to remind me that there's always sunshine after rain! Maybe every cloud does have a quilled lining after all.

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About Me

I believe that quilling has almost limitless artistic potential. That's why I combine it with digital graphics, seal it in resin, use it to make jewellery ... and much more besides! I'm constantly looking for new ways to push the boundaries of traditional quilling techniques. I write magazine articles about quilling, I teach quilling workshops, and am also an enthusiastic committee member of the Quilling Guild.